10mo old refusing solids?

My daughter was doing pretty well with age-appropriate puréed foods starting at 6 months old. It seems like around 8 1/2 months and onward, she's been showing less interested in anything but breastmilk. I've stopped giving her puréed foods, since she turns her head away at the sight of it, and started giving her soft chunks of food (ie. mushy cooked carrots, well cooked spiral pasta, avocado, etc). All she does now is throw them off her tray! she won't let me put pieces of those foods in her mouth, and eating the same foods as her at the same time doesn't make a difference...

I don't know what to do to get her to eat solids. She nurses just fine, but I don't want her on my boobs forever. 😫 Does anyone have any advice?

Mine started refusing purees when he started teething, then returned after a week or two. He loved Gerber's puffs so much he would still eat those. Finally my sitter gave him something to play with while she was feeding him, and he opened his mouth for the spoon again! So try distracting him?

Mine started refusing purees when he started teething, then returned after a ...

Posted
02/26/2015

Mine started refusing purees when he started teething, then returned after a week or two. He loved Gerber's puffs so much he would still eat those. Finally my sitter gave him something to play with while she was feeding him, and he opened his mouth for the spoon again! So try distracting him?

Same,

I have to give him a toy to play with in order to feed him his yoghurt

My LO (little one) won't tolerate purees anymore, she spits them at me, lol. I also find that when she is teething she doesn't want to eat much at all, solids or not. She also throws food off of her tray, but takes bites in between. I don't know how to help you, but my LO (little one) does eat more if I put a variety of bites on her tray. She loves peas, so I always try to include those in dinner so she at least eats something. Oh, one last thing, she loves to use the spoon. So if I give her a spoon while she eats she will try to scoop the food or put the food on it with her fingers and then eat it, lol. Good luck

I'm so sorry, and feel your pain as we're going through something similar. My LO (little one) started eating both purees and finger foods around 6 months, and doing well with it. But in the past couple of weeks he'll mostly just play and drop things on the floor. Maybe (hopefully?) it is just a phase!

Like others have said, I've found that offering a variety on his tray sometimes helps - even if all he eats are a few cheerios or chez - or distracting him with a game to make him laugh so I can get a spoon in his mouth.

Interestingly, DH (dear husband) can get him to eat a lot more than I can, as can they at nursery. So maybe it's a mummy-related thing in that they know we have better booby food, haha (I'm also still BF). Maybe try having someone else feed her?

I have read that for babies under 1," food is just for fun" - not a necessity but a learning process so that they are eating properly by the time they absolutely need the nutrition. So as long as our LOs are drinking enough milk, there's still time for them to get reacquainted with solids!

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